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In May 2016, a student enrolled in a high-school in Shelbyville, Texas, consented to having his phone searched by…

In all the talk about TikTok collecting the data of Americans and sending it to the Chinese government, we’ve often…

A coalition of major tech companies and digital rights organizations sent a letter on Friday to House leaders of…

Law enforcement queries of Google’s massive mobile device Location History database, which employees call…

The corporate lawyer and former chief U.S. law enforcement officer nominated to replace Jeff Sessions at the Justice…

Questions were raised last year about whether FBI agents were actively recruiting technicians at Best Buy’s Geek…

In the latest episode in a twisting and grotesque teen sexting case, an appeals court has reversed a lower court’s…

Arguments were heard in an appeals court on Wednesday involving a controversial government hacking case in which the…

Microsoft just scored a point for its customers’ privacy. Today, US District Judge ruled that the government can’t…

Today, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling in United States v. Rocky Joe Houston, which challenged…

Do you like privacy? You’re going to hate this news. A federal court just ruled that law enforcement doesn’t need a…

The rules for how the Department of Justice tracks down criminals in the digital age are woefully arcane, but the…

Here's some not-so-surprising news for you: federal prosecutors apparently think it's perfectly fine to hack into…

At this point, nobody's surprised to hear that the authorities can track your cell phone. But what you might not…

In the United States, the Fourth Amendment regulates citizens' right to privacy from the government. Unfortunately…

On Friday, the secret court that oversees cases related to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act renewed the…

Befuddled old judges? Not quite! Turns out Roberts is "the strongest proponent of Fourth Amendment protection" in Cit…